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Defense Authorizers Call For Development of Space Protection Strategy

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Friday, December 14th, 2007

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House and Senate defense overseers have called on the Secretary of Defense, in conjunction with the director of national intelligence (DNI), to craft a strategy to protect the capabilities necessary to ensure U.S. freedom of action in space, according to the conference report accompanying the final version of the FY '08 Defense Authorization Bill. "It is the Sense of Congress that the United States should place greater priority on the protection of national security space systems," they write in the…

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